Course details

The Internet is now ubiquitous to all commercial, academic and social circles as a means of communicating, advertising, publishing and distributing information. Companies require in-house personnel to continually update and improve their web presences. Those that do not have in-house expertise must rely on outside development teams to keep their daily operations running. Introduction to Web Design & Development will give students an introductory foundation and deeper understanding of the web, and learn to build and maintain their own websites. In doing so this course will give students far better control over the development of corporate and/or their own web presences.

Programme Aims and Objectives

Using current industry-standard design software, this course is aimed at people with good computer skills who may have little or no knowledge of web technologies but who wish to develop, design, launch and maintain websites. Windows skills are assumed but no previous web or programming skills are required.

On completion of this course, students will have acquired the skills to:

  • Search for, evaluate, and use information from the Internet
  • Read and edit HTML for low-level tweaks and modifications
  • Use style sheets to maintain a consistent look to web pages
  • Plan and design a complete website including content, page layouts, site map, user-friendly navigation and other features
  • Demonstrate good web design techniques
  • Discuss search engine optimisation (SEO)
  • Use other similar graphics editing software to create/edit and optimise graphics for the web
  • Create special effects with their own graphic images
  • Optimise images for export to the web and between tools
  • Understand different web graphic formats and their limitations.

Programme Content

The programme is delivered through tutor led classes, concentrating on labs and hands on skills. The skills used to create the websites are:

  • HTML
  • Structure, layout and design of each web page
  • Links (onsite links, offsite links, links within a page, image links, image maps)
  • Tables, borders and backgrounds
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
  • Forms including form handlers
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
  • Using JavaScript to create visual effects on the site
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About College of Computer Training

theylcome to the College of Computing Technology (CCT). As one of Ireland’s leading third-level independent colleges in the areas of Computing and Business studies, and with a comprehensive range of part-time, full-time, corporate, and semester abroad ctheirses within these areas, they trust you will find a programme of education and training to suit ytheir needs.

CCT affords a personal touch to its students, with small class sizes promoting an interactive learning atmosphere, and an excellent student service. they foster a dynamic, student-centred, international learning environment, which promotes inpidual potential. CCT provides QQI (Quality and Qualifications Ireland, incorporating the former HETAC and FETAC) validated programmes in further and higher education, at levels 6 and 7 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ). CCT also provides a number of other ctheirses aligned to levels 5-9 on the NFQ.

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